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Learn something new. Pick up a magazine on dogs, for example, while you are waiting for the dentist. Scan the articles and relate what you learn to what you already know. If you are a builder you may discover how the home requirements of dog owners are different from others. You might expand your knowledge, but the purpose of this brain exercise is to train yourself to automatically look for connections between things. This helps you think more creatively. It also helps your memory, because having more connections makes it easier to recall things.

A good way to learn something new, and at the same time use your driving time efficiently, is to listen to audio books. You can find books on tape or compact disc at many public libraries. You can also access a wide selection of titles, both fiction and non-fiction, at several online suppliers.

Sing To Solve Problems
When you are alone in your car, try singing about something you are working on. This taps into and exercises your right brain. Have you ever noticed how it is easier to rhyme when you sing than when you just speak or write? This is because the right brain is better at pattern recognition. By doing this brain exercise regularly you can train yourself to tap into the power of the right brain. This will make you a more effective problem-solver. If you doubt the distinction between the hemispheres of the brain, look at how stutterers can stop stuttering as soon as they start singing. Try it.
More Brain Exercises
Here's a brain exercise you can use to help you concentrate better. You simply pay attention to what is going on in your head, and you resolve any little "mind irritations" you find there. If you feel stressed, there is a reason. Perhaps you never figured out where that book was that you were looking for this morning, and it has been quietly bothering you all day, just below consciousness. If you can become aware of all these stressors, small and large, and deal with them, you will feel more relaxed and have greater concentration and brain power in general.

Dealing with them doesn't mean you can resolve all these issues now. You can, however, do something with them so you can let them go for the moment. Write "find book" on your to-do list, and your mind will let go of the concern for now. Just bringing a problem to full consciousness and telling yourself something like, "There is nothing I can do about this until Friday," will often stop the unconscious worrying. After doing these brain exercises a few times, you'll find it becomes easier to recognize what is just below the surface, irritating you and sapping your brain power.

Try breathing deeply also. This shouldn't be classified with "brain exercises," but it can help. Get that oxygen into your blood, and into your brain. You can exercise your brain with hard riddles as well.

Brain exercises can be as simple as having an intelligent conversation or reading about something new to you. They can also be more involved, like doing crossword puzzles or solving lateral thinking puzzles. Here are few general brain exercises you can do anywhere, and then a few ideas for exercising specific areas of brain function.

Simple Brain Exercises
One of the more entertaining brain exercises is to invent things in your mind. There are many techniques for doing this, but you can start as simply as looking at things and asking "How could this be better?" Look at a clock, for example, and you might wonder if it would be better if you didn't have to look at it. A clock that periodically announced the time and even reminded you of appointments might be useful.

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Other simple, but not necessarily easy brain exercises are those that involve puzzle solving. These can range from crossword puzzles to difficult lateral thinking puzzles. A simpler, fun version of the latter, is the basic riddle. "Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?" Because she was a hurricane. Riddles can be easy or difficult, but either way they get your mind thinking in new directions, and this is good for developing your creativity.

Inventing jokes is a great brain exercise. This can be a tough one if you haven't done it before. Take a topic or a word at random, and find a way to make a joke with it. "Justice," for example, could become "What's the one place in the world you can find justice?" In the dictionary! If you get nothing after five or ten minutes, move on to the next word or topic.

Brain Exercises For Specific Purposes
There are times when you may want to work on a particular area of your brainpower. I have some trouble with visual imagination, for example. If I wanted to be an architect, I would want to improve that. This can be accomplished by concentrating on scenes in one's mind. Imagine walking through your home, for example, and repeat the process until you can easily "see" everything in each room.

To learn better concentration, practice identifying "mind" irritations. Anything that is going on just below the surface is sapping your ability to concentrate. When you become aware of these things, you can put them on a list or otherwise dismiss them. Meditation can help with this, but simple mindfulness exercises may be enough to let your natural powers of concentration function.

Brain exercises to strengthen your memory can just be the repetitive use of any memory techniques. Mentally placing a list of items to be remembered at predetermined locations in your house, and seeing them there in an unusual way (think cucumbers dancing in the microwave), is one such technique. Imagining where you'll see a person next, and calling to them by name in your imagination is a good way
to remember names.

To develop your creativity, get a little wild. Look around and imagine something absurd, like flying lights. To make it more than just an exercise in imagination, though, you have to create some sense of the image. In this case, I am thinking that maybe there would be a market for little lights on helium balloons. Have a more or less neutral buoyancy, and a party could be full of colorful floating, moving lights.

There is no question that exercising your brain makes it work better. In fact, a more active brain has even been shown to postpone or reduce the incidence of age-related decline of mental function. Why not start today with some simple brain exercises?